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How To Install YouTube Go in UK & US: Get Official YouTube Downloader

YouTube Go, now out of beta and launching in 130 countries across the globe, has become known as Google's official YouTube downloader. Its aim is not actually to enable you

to download YouTube video for your own gains, but to optimise the app for use in countries where mobile data is expensive and connectivity poor. (Also see What is Android Go?)

For that reason, there are no plans to launch YouTube Go in the UK and US, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Germany or France. This means you won't be able to find the app within the Play Store from your Android device, and when using a desktop browser you will be told it's incompatible with all your devices.

But even though connectivity is much better over here than it is in places such as India, where YouTube Go launched in beta last year, that doesn't mean some users won't be able to benefit from the app. Not everyone has unlimited data plans, and parts of the UK still struggle with mobile connectivity.

YouTube Go is attractive not only as a YouTube downloader, but because it allows you to preview videos before you play them, and then to choose the quality before you begin playing so you know exactly how much data is required. In fact the latter is hopefully more attractive, given that when we tried the app every video had the Download option greyed out. We're not sure if this was because of our location or the type of video we were trying to download.

Regardless, if you want to give it a try, below we explain step-by-step how to download, install and set up YouTube Go on any Android device right now.